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Tugvvell and Mr, Weir remarked tliat many of the specimens 

 ran extremely close to A. cinerea, Hb., in character. 



Mr. Rice exhibited a white variety of a linnet {Linota 

 cannabina, L.), and said that he was incHned to think it had 

 gone white through age. 



Mr. Billups read an extract from the Pall Mall Gazette as 

 to the number of wild plants that were to be found on the 

 piece of vacant ground near Whitehall Place, and Mr. 

 Carrington said he had himself frequently noticed the rapidity 

 with which wild plants sprung up on land rendered vacant 

 by the pulling down of buildings ; he in particular referred 

 to a piece of land in Victoria Street, Westminster. It would, 

 he continued, be interesting for members with botanical 

 tastes to visit vacant land and make a list of plants. Mr. 

 Carrington concluded his remarks by some observations as to 

 the means by which the seeds were introduced to land upon 

 which buildings had previously stood for very long periods of 

 time. 



SEPTEMBER 24M, 1891. 



W. H. TUGWELL, Esq., Ph.C, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. South, referring to the remarks of Mr, Jenner 

 Weir at the previous meeting, said he had looked through his 

 series of Arctia caia, L., and he had none with black antennae, 

 but in Mr, Leach's collection was one from Japan, and one 

 which was evidently English, having black antennse. All the 

 specimens from Japan had more or less darkish antennae, the 

 shaft not being so white as in European specimens. 



Mr. Tugwell exhibited two English specimens of Arctia 

 caia, with black antennae, from his collection. Mr. Weir 

 remarked that the antennae were not positively black, but 

 were sufficiently dark as compared with the typical form to 

 be called so, 



Mr, J. H. Carpenter exhibited blue forms of the female 

 of LyccEua icarus, Rott., from Littlehampton, Sussex, Mr. 

 Jenner Weir stated that this form occurred throughout the 

 whole of Sussex. 



Mr. H. W. Barker exhibited a specimen of Leucania albi- 

 puncta, Fb., taken at Folkestone, Kent, during the month of 

 August, and he also exhibited pale ochreous forms of Bonibyx 

 castrensis, L. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited a specimen of Bonibyx mori, 

 L., bred from a cocoon found by him on a mulberry tree 

 growing in his garden at Beckenham, Kent, and remarked 

 that the cocoon was placed against the trunk, and had not 



